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Training Material Development Guide

Mo Hamza
Karlstad (SE): Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB) (2012), 61 pp.
"This guide is designed to document the process and good practice in developing training material, piloting and testing it. The guide is aimed to help you (the course organiser) to plan and conduct the course. The guide includes information on the main steps and stages in sequence of designing a tra ... more
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#ICT4HR: Information and Communication Technologies for Human Rights

Molly Land, Patrick Meier, Mark Belinski, Emily Jacobi
World Bank Institute; Open Development Technology Alliance; ICT4Gov (2012), 45 pp.
"Considerable attention has been focused on the opportunities presented by new information and communication technologies for development (“ICT4D”) and for government (“ICT4GOV”). The purpose of this report is to analyze their impact on human rights (“ICT4HR”). As Philip Alston, the form ... more
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"Africa Talks Climate": Comparing Audience Understandings of Climate Change in Ten African Countries

Anna Godfrey, Miriam Burton, Emily LeRoux-Rutledge
In: The Handbook of Global Media Research
Ingrid Volkmer (ed.)
Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley Blackwell (2012), pp. 504-520
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Health Communication Message Design: Theory and Practice

Hyunyi Cho (ed.)
Los Angeles: Sage (2012), xvi, 277 pp.
"This one of a kind text illustrates the importance of effective communication in disease prevention and health promotion by building theory-based messages while being responsive to diverse audience needs. This book clearly explains core health communication principles and processes for designing ef ... more
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Theatre for Change: Education, Social Action and Therapy

Robert Landy, David T. Montgomery
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (2012), xxviii, 309 pp.
"Providing an international overview of the latest work and thinking in Drama and Education, and featuring interviews with a worldwide variety of leading practitioners and theorists, this book explores how Educational Theatre, Applied Theatre and Drama Therapy facilitate change within schools, commu ... more
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Landraub: Reisen ins Reich des neuen Kolonialismus

Stefano Liberti
Alexander Knaak (transl.)
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2012), 254 pp.
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Investigating Communication, Health and Development: 10 Years of Research in the Centre for Communication, Media and Society (CCMS)

Emma Durden, Eliza Govender (eds.)
Auckland Park: Jacana Media; University of KwaZulu-Natal, Centre for Communication, Media and Society (CCMS) (2012), xxx, 480 pp.
"This book traces some of the key research conducted over a ten-year period by honours, MA and PhD students who have attended the CCMS Entertainment Education / communication for participatory development course from its inception in 2002, until 2011. There has been a marked shift in the paradigm gu ... more
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Human Rights Journalism: Advances in Reporting Distant Humanitarian Interventions

Ibrahim Seaga Shaw
Houndmills, Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2012), xvi, 281 pp.
"Shaw argues that journalism should focus on deconstructing the underlying structural and cultural causes of political violence such as poverty, famine and human trafficking, and play a proactive (preventative), rather than reactive (prescriptive) role in humanitarian intervention." (Publisher descr ... more
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Forum Theatre on the Air: Towards a Model of Participatory Radio Drama for Development on Community Radio

Mary Traynor
Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, volume 10, issue 2 (2012), pp. 173-187
"This article proposes an enhanced model of radio drama for development, which places forum theatre on the community radio platform. The model responds to the key development priorities of democratic, multi-directional communication, participation and social advocacy. It utilizes the mass disseminat ... more
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Development Communication: The Changing Technological Parameters Needed to Address Social Applications

Kalinga Seneviratne
In: Asian Communication Handbook
Sundeep R. Muppidi (eds.)
Singapore: Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC); Nanyang Technological University, Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information (2012), pp. 67-75
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Development Communication in Directed Social Change: A Reappraisal of Theory and Practice

Srinivas R. Melkote (ed.)
Singapore: Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC) (2012), vi, 266 pp.
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The Role of Participation in Community Theatre for Development Interventions: A Case Study of the Wadzanayi Farm Project in Lalapanzi, Zimbabwe

Julia Yule
University of Witwatersrand (2012), vii, 79 pp.
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Communication on Immunisation: Building Trust

Stockholm: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) (2012), iv, 41 pp.
"This guide highlights the importance of trust and credibility for public health organisations in order to communicate effectively on immunisation. The document aims at supporting Member States in planning and implementing communication initiatives on vaccination, by presenting an overview of the ma ... more
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Raising Women’s Voices Through Radio Drama: Reflections from South Africa

Deborah Walter (ed.)
Johannesburg: People Opposing Women Abuse (POWA); Community Media for Development (CMFD) (2012), 12 pp.
"This case study is being produced to share the process, techniques, and lessons learned from "Zaphamban' izindlela!" radio drama both as way to document, as well as facilitate others working on women’s issues to undertake similar initiatives. The case study demonstrates how entertaining forms of ... more
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Perceptions and Sources of Information in the Obo Region

Patrick Vinck, Jean-Pierre Dushime
Internews; Humanitarian Innovation Fund (2012), 11 pp.
"Between May 19th-27th, 2012, a team of four trained interviewers conducted interviews with 400 randomly selected adults representative of the adult population in Obo, the capital of Haut-Mbomou, one of the 14 prefectures of the Central African Republic (CAR), and its surroundings [...] Radio is the ... more
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Still Left in the Dark? How People in Emergencies Use Communication to Survive – and How Humanitarian Agencies Can Help

Imogen Wall, Lisa Robinson
London: BBC Media Action (2012), 15 pp.
"In 2008, a BBC World Service Trust policy briefing argued that people affected by earthquakes, floods or other emergencies often lacked the information they needed to survive and that this only added to their stress and anxiety. Left in the Dark: the unmet need for information in humanitarian emerg ... more
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Climate Asia: A New Approach to Research on Public Understanding of Climate Change

Tan Copsey, Sonia Whitehead
London: BBC Media Action (2012), 32 pp.
"Climate Asia will be the largest ever research study into public understanding of climate change in Asia with more than 33,000 interviews conducted across seven countries: Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan and Vietnam. This working paper explains the distinctive research approach ... more
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Understanding Context in Learning-centred Approaches to Climate Change Communication

Blane Harvey, Liz Carlile, Jonathan Ensor, Ben Garside, Zachary Patterson
IDS Bulletin (Institute of Development Studies), volume 43, issue 5 (2012), pp. 31-37
"Communication on climate change research has long been dominated by top-down delivery of information aimed at informing on future climate scenarios and climate-related events. However, emphasis in this field is slowly shifting to more process-oriented approaches to communication, and the need to in ... more
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La obesidad infantil y la publicidad de alimentos no saludables en el Perú

Alexander Chiu Werner
Lima: Consejo Consultivo de Radio y Televisión (CONCORTV) (2012), 9 pp.
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Reality Must Improve: The Perversity of Expertise and the Belatedness of Indian Development Television

William Mazzarella
Global Media and Communication, volume 8, issue 3 (2012), pp. 215-241
"This essay argues against reducing the recent history of global television to an oversimplified transition between ‘statist’ and ‘consumerist’ dispensations. As apparently irreconcilable ideologies of television, the statist and consumerist models represent two ways of imagining the relatio ... more